Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A famous chimpanzee community in Uganda split into two rival factions after years of social strain, giving scientists a rare look ...

Scientists are studying a rare, large-scale war between formerly friendly chimpanzees in central Africa in the hope that it could shed light on the belligerent nature of the apes' closest biological ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...

(CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the ...

I apologize for the strange title. This is not an article about 'weaving' but about 'knowing.' Without a doubt.The closest living relatives to us humans are chimpanzees. An interesting study observing ...

A chimpanzee civil war has been ongoing for eight years, as the monkeys ambush each other (Image: Getty Images/Gallo Images ROOTS Collection) Scientists have documented a 'chimp civil war' within the ...

"Alpha" is a position of enormous strength and importance for chimpanzees. Before the war and the split of the Ngogo chimpanzees into two groups, Jackson was alpha of everyone, more than 200 ...

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw something that did not make sense. A small party of chimps from the Ngogo ...

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are ...